[Tutor] URLs for urllib.urlopen

Fri, 29 Jun 2001 14:42:39 +0100

Can someone explain this to me?

PythonWin 2.1 (#15, Apr 16 2001, 18:25:49) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32.
Portions Copyright 1994-2001 Mark Hammond (MarkH@ActiveState.com) - see
'Help/About PythonWin' for further copyright information.
>>> import urllib, pprint
>>> page = urllib.urlopen('http://www.python.org')
>>> data = page.readlines()
>>> pprint.pprint(data)
['<html><head><title>Error</title></head><body>The parameter is incorrect.
</body></html>']
>>> page = urllib.urlopen('http://www.python.org/')
>>> data = page.readlines()
>>> pprint.pprint(data)
['<HTML>\n',
 '<!-- THIS PAGE IS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED.  DO NOT EDIT. -->\n',
(... snip)

It appears that urllib requires a trailing slash, but in the examples in the
effbot's PSL book, he doesn't give one. Any ideas?

Cheers,
Simon Brunning
TriSystems Ltd.
sbrunning@trisystems.co.uk

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